Samuel: The Last Judge and A Prophet. Son of Hannah. he anoints both Saul and David as kings.
Saul: The First King of Israel
David: The Model King of Israel: A King after God's Heart. (Shepherd, the son of Jesse, son of OBED, son of Boaz and Ruth) . God promises to make David's kingdom everlasting. David did sin, and repented. (Bathsheba)
Soloman: The 'Wise'. Son of David, surpassing in wisdom, but whose heart is swayed from God, with disastrous consequences. Built the great temple at Jerusalem, which becomes the center of liturgy. But he made many alliance marriages and built temples to the gods of his wives too.
Kingship:
Limitations of Royal Authority: Deuteronomy 17
14When you have come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,” 15you may indeed set over you a king whom the Lord your God will choose. One of your own community you may set as king over you; you are not permitted to put a foreigner over you, who is not of your own community. 16Even so, he must not acquire many horses for himself, or return the people to Egypt in order to acquire more horses, since the Lord has said to you, “You must never return that way again.” 17And he must not acquire many wives for himself, or else his heart will turn away; also silver and gold he must not acquire in great quantity for himself. 18When he has taken the throne of his kingdom, he shall have a copy of this law written for him in the presence of the levitical priests. 19It shall remain with him and he shall read in it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, diligently observing all the words of this law and these statutes, 20neither exalting himself above other members of the community nor turning aside from the commandment, either to the right or to the left, so that he and his descendants may reign long over his kingdom in Israel.
Samuel: The Last Judge and A Prophet. Son of Hannah. he anoints both Saul and David as kings.
Saul: The First King of Israel
David: The Model King of Israel: A King after God's Heart. (Shepherd, the son of Jesse, son of OBED, son of Boaz and Ruth) . God promises to make David's kingdom everlasting. David did sin, and repented. (Bathsheba)
Soloman: The 'Wise'. Son of David, surpassing in wisdom, but whose heart is swayed from God, with disastrous consequences. Built the great temple at Jerusalem, which becomes the center of liturgy. But he made many alliance marriages and built temples to the gods of his wives too.
Kingship:
Limitations of Royal Authority: Deuteronomy 17
14When you have come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,”15you may indeed set over you a king whom the Lord your God will choose. One of your own community you may set as king over you; you are not permitted to put a foreigner over you, who is not of your own community.
16Even so, he must not acquire many horses for himself, or return the people to Egypt in order to acquire more horses, since the Lord has said to you, “You must never return that way again.”
17And he must not acquire many wives for himself, or else his heart will turn away; also silver and gold he must not acquire in great quantity for himself.
18When he has taken the throne of his kingdom, he shall have a copy of this law written for him in the presence of the levitical priests.
19It shall remain with him and he shall read in it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, diligently observing all the words of this law and these statutes,
20neither exalting himself above other members of the community nor turning aside from the commandment, either to the right or to the left, so that he and his descendants may reign long over his kingdom in Israel.
A Gift, not an absolute right